Graham Forrester
gforrester@uri.edu
University of Rhode Island
Dept. of Natural Resources Science
Coastal Institute in Kingston, #114
1 Greenhouse Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Voice: (401) 874-7054
Fax: (401) 874-4561
Professor of Aquatic Ecology
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1992
Dr. Forrester's general interest is in the ecology of populations occupying aquatic environments. There are two main themes of his research: (1) to further conceptual understanding of natural populations, and (2) to apply these concepts to environmental problems in innovative ways. His work is typically field-based, and he takes an experimental and quantitative approach to answering questions that are motivated by the rapidly developing theory for these systems. Dr. Forrester's research is done in a variety of habitats and on different organisms, depending on the questions being asked. Mostly, though, he works on fish and invertebrates that live on coral and rocky reefs, as well as in streams and estuaries.
Three Representative Publications:
Forrester, G. E., M. A. Steele, J. F. Samhouri, R. R. Vance. 2008. Settling larvae of a small coral reef fish discriminate reef features at large, but not small, spatial scales. Limnology & Oceanography 53:1956-62
Tallman, J. C. and G. E. Forrester. 2007. Oyster grow-out cages function as artificial reefs for temperate fishes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:790-799.
Steele, M. A. and G. E. Forrester. 2005. Small-scale field experiments accurately scale up to predict density dependence in reef fish populations at large scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA 102:13513–13516
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Dr. Forrester's Recent Publications
Counting fish on a transect in the Virgin Islands as part of a long-term monitoring study.
Our main study species, the bridled goby. This 30 mm long adult is tagged
so it can be individually recognized.
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